Not sure and can't be bothered to check, but I think it was Blanche DuBois in a Streetcar naed Desire who said it first. The kindness of strangers always, inevitably takes you by suprise, be it the two foriegn girl students who stopped to help me push my car out of a busy road while my fellow countrymen drove by, leaning on their horns and swearing at me, or the departing Editor of the sadly defunct Nickolodeon Magazine, Dave Roman, who sent out care packages of half a dozen magazines to anyone who asked. I was one of those who asked and a package turned up, addressed to Molly, my daughter, just as she was havng a miserable birthday and half term holiday with a bad bout of flu.

Spongebob Squarepants, bless his yellow little hide, introduced Molly to comics and having a bunch of Nick magazines turn up, in the post, from the USA, made her week long bout of flu much more bareable for her than it would have been.

Nick Magazine had a superb comics section, including work by many of the mainstays of the indy comics scene and even the odd undergrounder like Bobby London. Dave Roman got a lot of good work out of a lot of very good people and in the process made a lot of kids very happy, (probably will find he's partly responsible for a new generation of cartoonists in ten to twenty years time too) something to be proud of. If there is an upside to this it is that hopefully Mr Roman will be able to do more work hiself as he's a fabulous cartoonist and writer himself.

About Me

Peter Bangs

Southampton England

Married, two kids, mortgage, working for my wife, looking after our two year old son and frankly terrified. Welcome to my little bit of sanity. I've spent 39 of my 46 years wanting to create stories and comics and achieving very little (a 200 page comic and a 24hour comic 10 years or more ago and very little since) so this is where I'm getting serious. Do work, put it out there, move on. Currently blog, reviews and a bunch of artwork will appear here, comics will be hosted on issuu on the words and pictures page. Now let loose the dogs of war. ( that would have been so much more effective in capitals with lots of exclamation points. )